skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quit reading once I realized I was reading a gay man denouncing gentrifiers as being "neoliberal colonizers". Ugh... he may have experienced racism but he's also suffering from self delusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator
For now, you have to trust us ;) But yeah we obviously have things (votes, endorsements, verified badges and the likes) planned to ensure the tl;drs reflect the underlying article accurately. It is a first world problem for now though.
I'm an engineer/entrepreneur type guy. Everything else is just by accident.
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Kixeye, the gaming startup that proves Silicon Valley’s frat-house culture isn’t going away anytime soon.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/08/...
I don't see it as a difficult issue at all. The effects of false positives (and they are going to be mostly, almost totally, false positives by definition) in your scenario make it a non-starter, period. For property crimes?

I can see a rationale that they aren't really false positives since nobody is being accused or whatever, but that's just moving the goalposts such that it becomes OK to investigate random people like Nixon and Hoover (et al), but I will put good money down on the eventuality of someone with a criminal record, a cellphone, and an airtight alibi getting their home raided and them being injured or killed.

Of course it's a good source of leads, for some value of "lead." That's the problem. By way of analogy, there are plenty of people, some of them extremely high profile, who have criminally affected the world's economies and are getting away with it right this minute, so maybe let's take care of the crimes we have actual evidence of laws being broken before we get all Inspector Gadget about relatively minor crimes.

The only difficult part of the issue is how to explain it in a way that portrays it as both harmless and necessary, because it's neither.
I wish they would split it though. Valve doing software is awesome, but Steam is pretty sweet right now & they shouldn't mess with it.

That being said, of all the only companies I probably trust Valve the most to not screw over people and/or mess it up.
I know another dev who used to work for another small gaming company in SF. He was non-chinese asian, and the management was mostly Han-Chinese and he also got a lot of vaguely racial comments and despite being a rather productive employee, quit a few months later in disgust at disrespect.

I can only imagine this kind of attitude can be go unchecked in an insular frat-boy-ish culture where strong ties and long hours are valued more than respect and work output.

Definitely something to watch out for - even if you're in the in-group and not being harassed, it's not fun witnessing this kind of petty abuse.
Yes, of course, we sacrifice accuracy. I said so at the very start. But imagine a "go to definition" tool that works correctly for 99% of cases and barfs or goes to the wrong place on the others. If the alternative is no tool at all, that still sounds pretty useful!

I admit there are cases (refactoring is an example) where if you don't trust the tool 100% you won't use it. But many tools are not like that.
The Startups on San Francisco's Billionaire's Row
Use passphrases for better security
hehe glad we could make you smile! We put a lot of work into it. We thought it would be hard to convince people to install it otherwise as it is sort of a technical abstract conceptual thing for now so we added humor :)
The most incredible thing about this is that these applications can have achievements, DLC, and even Steam Workshop support.

Check out Game Maker: http://store.steampowered.com/app/214850/

- Different components sold as DLC (http://store.steampowered.com/dlc/214850/)

- Achievements (http://steamcommunity.com/stats/214850/achievements) for things like "run a game on iOS" and "1000 debugs"

- Created games can be put on the Steam Workshop (http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse?appid=214850), which is INCREDIBLE when you think about it!
You've got a crisis. But if you are also independently wealthy you can say "I'll put in the $10M but I'll take 2 million shares."

This is the bit I don't understand. Is the founder/investor essentially holding everyone else to ransom in such a situation, and saying they'll allow the company to go bust if the other participants don't accept a 2/3 cut in their voting power?

If so, how does a company or a co-founder protect against such tactics? I know about anti-takeover strategies like poison pills and so on in the corporate world, but I wonder whether they are really effective in the early stage rounds.
If you're afraid of immature technologies, why use websockets to begin with?
I won't use two accounts because I'm a uniter, not a divider. I'd like each side to pay a lot of attention to the other, and I think they're wrong (actually worse than wrong) not to. The rational is worse than wrong not to pay more attention to the creative, and the creative is worse than wrong not to pay more attention to the rational.
> I think the majority of users out there would want to keep their personal and business credentials separate.

Yup. Luckily it's pretty easy to maintain one set of online credentials for business activities and another for personal ones.
From a business standpoint, what is the strategy here?

What does North Carolina have over Mexico? How does this cater to the corporate "custom" PC market?

I'm curious to see why the company is moving operations there.
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You can always open the mailbox first and grab the message you want to reply to:

mutt -Rf <mailbox name>

... will open the given mailbox in read-only mode (so as not to update read flags and such).

In practice, I generally run mutt within screen, with multiple frequently-accessed mailboxes open. I switch mailboxes by moving between screen buffers.
360p video to demonstrate a product in this age?
Was surprised to hear it on local NRP this morning. Pretty crappy situation for us in the community.
Wait, because you encountered a bug (that no one else has replicated), you are putting off Microsoft products for another 10 years? No offense, but that seems like a silly reaction.
That's quite an ad-copy filled Wikipedia page they have (and an even weirder website).

Not that this says whether Kixeye is the company described by OP.
We use it at Getaround and it works well all the time. We once had our internet line go out and couldn't lock our office until we found the spare key, though.
pg's goal with hacker news is to keep a high quality of discussion, and not to grow the site to more users.

True, but HN strikes me as a pretty small expense, and its existence certainly helps the growth of YC.
well we could talk about it! No particular reason, we're not developers/designers by trade, we have a generalist engineering background and we wanted to do a startup so we just went with what was buzzing at the time and learned everything from almost scratch. (could definitely be that it wasn't the smartest technical choices but since we've been handling the HN spike on our 20$/month linode VPS pretty handsomely so far we must be doing something right)
YES! And I bet that a little bit of heuristics, a little bit of machine learning, and/or a little bit of user feedback (say, a button that tells the tool it went to the wrong function definition) would help such a tool cover a few more of the difficult cases.

This ought to be a classic case of "worse is better", which is why I'm surprised to see that people seem to shy away from it.
We once had 2 links on HN front page for http://backspac.es for the better part of a day -- although neither made it to number one spot -- running only 1 dyno. Something like 18K uniques.

Also had two techcrunch posts about something I made (http://venturecrapital.us) running on a single micro ec2. tornado + nginx + mongodb and proper indexes go a long way. Similar traffic.
Too much information?
> I quit reading once I realized I was reading a gay man denouncing gentrifiers

Why does his sexual orientation factor into his credibility for you?
C# really needs something similar to this. How many times have I implemented INotifyProgertyChanged and INotifyPropertyChanging. They're the exact same implementation every time. Now I've gone on to a base notify propery changed class that I can inherit from, but the mix-in approach, or the default implementation could be perfect.
Is there a link to that report?
I think Stack Exchange has Quora beat in the technical question market. An RFP concept would be rife with scams and low quality work.
To me, TypeScript is the answer to 1) the perceived quirkiness of JavaScript to those who are unfamiliar with it and 2) an increasing number of developers coming out of college with heavy Java backgrounds. I see TypeScript taking off mainly because of the latter point--strict typing and well-defined OO practices will act as a decent safety net for new developers.
British company offers efficient energy storage using ‘liquid air’
IMO yahoo needs to exit more bad people than bring in new good people. I wouldn't sell to them (well, I would, but only for FY money for both me and everyone on the team, with a 2y earn-out) until it is clear they've liquidated all the dead wood. (although I'd love to get to be the liquidator-of-dead-wood... the Romney quote would be appropriate.)
Isn't that close enough for getting a court order to ban sales?
I suppose we could up the quality, it was the default setting. What's recommended, 720p?
Default / typical behavior is for mutt to update the mailbox message state (new, unread, read, replied) when closing the mailbox. Using the -R flag prevents this behavior.

Forgetting to do so is more an annoyance than an End of the World Event, but it's an annoyance which can be avoided with a really simple flag use.
As best as we can tell, this issue started in the late evening Sunday, registration occurred very early in the morning Monday, and was subsequently resolved later in the day:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/19852289#19852289

And it appears it was never about DNS resolution / network discoverability.
I don't think that's necessarily true. I think it's more that he sees the moral hazard in the OS vendor also being the only official store on the platform.
Wow, this looks awesome! Well done guys, this is a really powerful feature!
You haven't been to many countries then. I don't think any country I've been to except the US accepts US currency. They'll accept it in a bureau de change, but you can say that of lots of currencies.

(For reference, that's mainly Australasia and Europe)
I dunno if he's just angry, I guess it makes sense, but I agree that some of his comments seem off, like he has "problems" beyond the situation, these are just as racist:

Also, at some point after this conversation took
place, one of the women looked at my prized necklace
and said “Hey, that looks like a calculator, is that a calculator?”

I said “um no, it’s a necklace, it’s African, from Nairobi.”

And she replies “Oh, huh…..well, it looks like a calculator.”

Dumbwhite**********

and then:

do what white men always can’t help but do: “educate.”

I get that he had a bad experience, but it seems he's descending into pointless casual racism too.

edit: this too

I cannot afford to take white people’s shit anymore.
Even worse is the argument that it's OK for the government to spy on people because they personally "have nothing to hide". I hear this argument with astonishing regularity from otherwise highly educated individuals.
Note that if fewer women participate in STEM fields for any reason at all, they will report lower feelings of belonging as a result.
I agree with taking up a lawsuit. He is a racist dick.

On that same note, don't bring yourself to his level and start throwing out racist slurs too. Your words are public domain now, and if they get a lawyer with any sense, they might find a defense in your offense.

kick his teeth in in court though! (figuratively of course)
You're right, he should have avoided confusion/inaccuracy by just saying "neoliberal subjugators". If you think that's delusional, I have some bad news for you.
Sure thing, be glad to. Ping me whenever at john@<myusername>.com
Honestly, if Apple opened up iOS to OEM licensees, but made clear that they were still going to ship their own devices? Who in the blue hell wants to go toe to toe with Apple on hardware?

Granted, you'd still have a few (insane) OEMs willing to cough up the money to try, but mostly on the notion that they will convert a portion of the coveted iOS userbase to their brand - a userbase that doesn't exist in WinPhone land. At all.

So really, where exactly will OEMs find the motivation to ship any WinPhones at all once Microsoft enters the hardware game for themselves? They'd be paying exorbitant sums to continue using an OS that already wasn't selling, just so they can now compete with a player that has every advantage available.

I'd be incredibly surprised if we don't see a mass OEM exodus from WinPhone if MS enters the hardware game. Not that there's really that big of an exodus to be had in the first place, though...
The location of the search form here on HN in relation to other special-content links (e.g., new, threads, comments) is another usability problem with HN. So too is the placement of the link to the user guidelines, down low (and NOT on every HN page displayed to users) where it is hard to see.
I was gonna visit their site, and then it turned out to be all Flash...

Really? In 2012?
Because the author is being made to feel like he is an 'other', and he is using language to reflect that.
I usually hate these gimmicks, but my god, this is extremely well done. Really need to consider it...
If success rates are much lower for single-founder/investor companies (and I suspect they are)

That suspicion is the sticking point for me.

Clearly there are many types of business that are effectively impossible to start without help unless the founders are already very wealthy. Most people couldn't afford to buy a factory and industrial equipment to start a specialist car manufacturing business, even if they had a team of founders who knew exactly how to build the most profitable car design in history and how to run a successful business selling those cars.

However, many other types that can start small and grow, with a level of initial funding that normal people might have available or be able to raise without relying on formal investment. Almost anything in any creative or service industry qualifies, and even several of the most successful retail brands in the world started as someone's family business selling out of one local store.

So my question is, for any business in the latter category, is there any evidence that:

(a) taking outside investment does corrolate with a higher success rate, by any useful measure of success given that obviously we could define it in several reasonable ways?

(b) any such relationship is causal, so the greater chance of success is definitely due to the money and not (for example) to the experience of and/or information available to the people running the business, both of which would tend to be higher at least for first-time founders if they had outside help?
How do I prevent developer from stealing my iPhone app idea?
I'm going to hire a developer on oDesk to create an iphone game. How can I prevent him from making copies of the game in the future? Is there a standard template I can use?
Let's be clear on the definitional game the Army is playing here: a "radical" is someone the Army prefers not to be in its ranks. Yes, the Army employs people who would draw this conclusion. Lots of them.
The lessons of what not to do is just as useful as figuring out what to do. Because you might try out things that won't work, rather than trying new ideas that nobody knows work.
That's true to some extent, but old Android devices fall by the wayside too. I took my old HTC Hero up to Android 2.3 with third-party ROMs, but it can't run anything newer: it doesn't have enough flash space, and it's limited by its CPU and RAM in any case.
The original design of the ThinkPad was said to resemble the shape of a Japanese lunchbox.
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Thanks for submitting this, and having the courage to speak out about a really awful corporate culture. I had a feeling they were like this from their horrible, obnoxious recruiting billboards, and it's kind of sad vindication to see how terrible they truly are in practice. I hope the author finds a nice job that fits with his moral compass and treats him (and everyone else) with the respect he deserves.
New York Times Launches HTML5-powered iPad Web App
At various points in the article, the author uses terminology that stoops to the level of the people he's railing against.

Don't let racists bring you down to their level.
If the poster is of that company, you can do a quick google search for "rule the interwebz" and it shows the web address at the bottom of the poster.
Totally agreed on the pocket layout - don't know what i'd do without my cargo pants/shorts - must be an engineer thing... http://xkcd.com/806/
As long as they sell software using their tremendous discounts usually found on Steam, they will have me as a customer. I doubt we'll see any mainstreams applications on there though.
> I quit reading once I realized I was reading a gay man denouncing gentrifiers as being "neoliberal colonizers". Ugh... he may have experienced racism but he's also suffering from self delusion.

In other words, you just stopped reading and don't care about the alleged racism.
http://kgou.org I hit them up on their contact form saying I heard their bit this morning but don't have anything to read online for more info.
I felt this exact same thing. The author specifically writes out "Dumbwhite" a few times after making a point or outlining some situation.

While the author certainly doesn't deserve to be treated with disrespect, I think there is some looking inward that needs to happen here too.
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If I were a TV manufacturer
Just that one in particular. I think putting stickers on laptops is an atrocious practice, and one that huge would be hilariously awful.
Without a doubt it's racist. But if you consider power structures and privilege, not all racism is equally bad. As a white male, I'd rather he not have that opinion of me based solely on my race, but I'm willing to give him some leeway due to his experiences.
Though not an absolute requirement, the "Buy American Act" [1] gives preference to equipment that is made in this country and intended for government/military use. This could be a legal/marketing maneuver on Lenovo's part to get a larger share of government technology contracts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_American_Act
Ok I'll give you my idea.

I hate one aspect of email: all the spam/solicitations that websites love to bombard me with. Meetup.com is a particular egregious example, being next to impossible to unsubscribe from.

Also, not all emails are equal. Emails from friends, family, or colleagues are important and should be treated on the same notification level as texts. But notifications emails from spammy websites set off the same notifications. I probably check my phone 90% of the time only to find out someone liked my post on <insert-social-network-here>. It's gotten to the point where I have to use multiple email addresses to register for websites.

My idea: A regulated email exchange. Each email account gets 10-50 tokens. Whenever someone emails you, they attach their token. As recipient, you can then choose whether to return the token or not. Keeping the token means that sender can't send you any more emails until you return the token. Returning the token means you acknowledge the email sender is legitimate and not a spammer.

Also, the less tokens a sender has, the less spammy emails they can send out. When they hit zero tokens, they're effectively dead in the water. The idea is to cut down on all the BS, unnecessary emails and raise the quality of sent emails.

In short: users exchange tokens with other users they want to interact with. users withhold tokens from other users they don't want to interact with. spammy websites have a lot less ammo with which to bombard users with.
"Not that this says whether Kixeye is the company described by OP."

The image at the top is from one of their many, many, obnoxious ads.
Rethinking Freemium
Riley Testut, 16 year old developer of Camera Prime, discusses freemium vs paid, his love for Objective C, iPhone 5 and what it's like to make cash from apps as a high school junior.
Warning - This post contains pornographic content (at the bottom of the page).
Show HN: iOS game teaching kids about Personal Finance
I don't think so.

This is anecdotal, obviously, but the talk of fizzbuzz and for-loop is all myth to myself and friends. I'm very skeptical of all of the for-loop or fizzbuzz programming exercises. Additionally the recent CS graduate I knew had to do things like implement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance and such which makes me doubt the validity of these more. How could it be that one place is asking for that and turning him down with a working solution while another place is so desperate they just require a for-loop? Something doesn't feel correct.
This really isn't that surprising to me. Game testers are the same young kids who are running around xbox games going out of their way to be as offensive as possible to everyone. It should come as no shock that they act the same way at work when work is just an extension of their regular gaming life. I'm not defending it, mind you, since Kixeye is going way too far with it, but the 'culture' he speaks of is the online gaming culture.
Poison pills are "triggers" in which new shares can instantly be added to the company, in order to hinder a hostile takeover.

For example, if someone with 20% shares is trying to sweep up to 51%, a poison pill can come into effect when someone gains 40% ownership of the company, which would then give shares to existing board members, etc. This creates new shares and dilutes shares, but it also dilutes the person's shares who is trying to do the hostile takeover.

You could ask, "Why would anyone ever need to insure against this?" but it happens. Publicly traded companies can represent a massive wealth in assets, which can be stripped away, sold, and cashed out as dividends.

If a company's share price is getting abnormally low, there is a risk that someone could see the assets as being worth more than what it would cost to do a hostile takeover.

For example: Chuck Conway did it with KMart back in 2002 when the company declared bankruptcy. They sold off thousands of the Kmart stores for their land.
I'm sorry, but this kind of whining is what I've heard from professional victims my entire life. Talking about gentrifiers as invaders discredits the rest of the story in my eyes. As a former trailer park country boy who grew up in a mostly black county, I can attest to how blatantly (and without even realizing it) racist and insensitive whites who grew up in affluent suburbs can be. My best friend (since age 11) is a black male who dominates at his company. He has told me dozens of stories of dealing with these kinds of white boys. All the stories end the same way: He tells them, directly, in the same manner as if he were talking to a drunken buddy making an ass of himself at a bar, "what you just said was offensive/racist/etc. I'm gonna assume that you didn't realize it, but now you do. Cool?" He told me this has resulted in all of them apologizing with minimal awkwardness afterwards. Racism/racial insensitivity isn't an incurable disease. It's the result of attitudes and ignorance. If people would, instead of isolating people displaying these behaviors, instead approach them and talk to them and continue to treat them as friends, it would go a long way towards fixing things.